The Origin Of Woke
- By u.net
- Jul 10, 2018
“Woke is definitely a black experience — woke is if someone put a burlap sack on your head, knocked you out, and put you in a new location and then you come to and understand where you are ain’t home and the people around you ain’t your neighbors. They’re not acting in [...]
Gentrification & Subway Dancers
- By u.net
- Jul 04, 2018
Priscilla Ward breaks down just how gentrification and the police are criminalizing ‘Showtime’ for a generation of youth looking to make a way for themselves. Gentrification is shifting the culture of MTA’s underground performance ecosystem, particularly for African American and Hispanic youth. Police are finding a means of controlling what [...]
Charlie Ahearn su Wild Style
- By u.net
- Mar 15, 2018
Per il trentacinquesimo anniversario di Wild Style ripropongo un estratto di una mia intervista con Charlie Ahearn.
Attivo nella scena artistica underground newyorkese sin dalla metà degli anni Settanta, Charlie Ahearn ha iniziato la sua carriera di fotografo e regista nel collettivo artistico Co-Lab Collective impegnato nella creazione di Artivism, produzioni [...]
The Soundtrack to #BlackLoveMatters
- By u.net
- Feb 21, 2018
Almost 50 years after its release, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” may be the most recognizable Soul duet ever recorded. It’s easy to think that the song’s timelessness has every thing to do with the musical bond that Gaye and Terrell shared, in the studio and on [...]
A Biopic On Huey P. Newton
- By u.net
- Feb 15, 2018
A biopic on Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton has been greenlit. Retired basketball player Matt Barnes took to Instagram to announce the project Monday, writing: “Just got the Huey Newton The Leader Of The Black Panthers-bio pic GreenLit! POWER TO THE PEOPLE will be the name of the film! Stay tuned!!” [...]
BET Cypher: Eminem vs Trump
- By u.net
- Oct 24, 2017
Ottobre 2017. L’evento, i BET HIP HOP Awards. Il momento più atteso della serata, il Cypher annuale. In un succedersi di video preregistrati, nomi leggendari della scena si alternano al microfono a volti emergenti. L’evento procede secondo programma finché non entra in scena Eminem che rappa in un freestyle a [...]
STAND FOR WHAT ???
- By u.net
- Oct 09, 2017
Saint Louis, 2017. Immagini in bianco e nero raccontano lo svolgersi di una manifestazione. Dai cartelli e dai cori è evidente che si tratta una protesta contro la brutalità della polizia. In particolare, questi giovani manifestano contro l’assoluzione di un poliziotto, Jason Stockley, per l’assassinio dell’ennesimo giovane nero, il 24enne [...]
THE ORIGINS OF WALL WRITING
- By u.net
- Sep 08, 2017
Hip-hop is plagued by mythology.
Whether it is the idea that Brooklyn disco DJ’s invented the music, or that breaking comes from capoeira, or that a short-lived gang truce is what gave the culture life, there seems to be no shortage of people eager to take credit for one or another aspect of hip-hop. What’s worse, [...]
The 10 Best Jazz Rap Albums
- By u.net
- Aug 29, 2017
Back when A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip was a teenager, the legend goes, his father overheard him playing some hip hop and said it reminded him of bebop. That connection, drawn in the opening seconds of Tribe’s 1991 album The Low End Theory, at first seems a little odd. Musically, late [...]
The Story Of O.J.
- By u.net
- Jul 14, 2017
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga / Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga / Still nigga, still nigga. Così rappa Jay Z nel ritornello del singolo The Story of O.J. tratto dall’album 4:44, nuovo lavoro del rapper, imprenditore e moghul di Brooklyn. Il pezzo, accompagnato da [...]